Bibliography
This is an incomplete personal list of books and publications which I have found useful as background to the work described on this website.
For more on the experimental work of Baird, consult:
- Dinsdale, Television, 2nd edn 1928 (the 1st edition is very brief and is available in facsimile form from KellyBooks in Tiverton, Devon)
- Moseley & Barton-Chapple, Television Today and Tomorrow, (any of the editions)
For an authoritative and accurate account of the work of the Baird Company, consult:
- R M Herbert, Seeing by Wireless, self-published, 1996
For the current definitive account of Campbell-Swinton’s achievements, consult:
- T H Bridgewater OBE, Royal Television Society Monograph 1, 1982: A A Campbell Swinton
For the best accounts of BBC 30-line television in the 1930’s, consult:
- John Swift, Adventure in Vision – the first 25 years of Television, Lehmann 1950
- Gordon Ross, Television Jubilee, W H Allen 1961
- T H Bridgewater OBE, Just a Few Lines, Supplement to Bulletin of British Vintage Wireless Society, August 1992
- Bruce Norman, Here’s Looking at You, BBC & Royal Television Society, 1984 (Available as read-only PDF files on the CD: The Dawn of Television Remembered)
For more general reference information on historic television consult:
- Abramson, The History of Television, 1880 to 1941, McFarland 1987
- Briggs, A. The History of Broadcasting in the United Kingdom, Violume 2: The Golden Age of Wireless (1927-1939) Oxford University Press, 2nd edn. (1995) [Make sure you refer to the 2nd edition as Briggs makes multiple minor errors in the 1965, 1st edition]
- Burns R W, British Television, the Formative Years, Peregrinus 1986
- Burns R W, Television – an international history of the formative years, Peregrinus 1998 ISBN 0 85296 914 7
- Shiers G, Early Television – A Bibliographic Guide to 1940, Garland Publishing 1997 ISBN 0-8240-7782-2
More recent publications that may be of interest:
- Burns R W, John Logie Baird, Television Pioneer, IEE 2000, ISBN 0 85296 797 7
- Kamm A and Baird M, John Logie Baird, A Life, NMS Publishing 2002, ISBN 1 901663 76 0
- Aldridge M, The Birth of British Television, Palgrave MacMillan 2012, ISBN 978 0 230 27769 4
And don’t forget:
- McLean D F, Restoring Baird’s Image, IEE 2000, ISBN 0 85296 795 0